Butler

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Thoughts courtesy of Dave Hamley:

I raised this same question in TF years ago and got zero response.  The PRCo
records do list the shipments as described below, a couple cars at a time.
There is no indication of when the cars returned, but they all did, as all
are
accounted for in later retirements.  Two possibilities come to mind:

The more likely scenario is that these cars went to Standard Steel Car for
some
kind of modification or rebuild.  Could this be related to the change from a
single front door to two doors?  If this were the case, they probably came
back
to PRCo in short order.

A less likely possibility was suggested by one of the pioneer PTM members
(either Redman or Bartley).  They thought the cars may have been loaned to
the
local lines in Butler for service there.  I'm not at all familiar with
these,
except to know that there wasn't much to that system in the first place,
which
makes me doubt that they'd need that many loaners.  Unless the cause were
something like a major carbarn fire that decimated their own fleet.

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Thanks, Dave.  The "less likely possibility" is one of those "we'd like to
believe it" things I complain about periodically.  There's no way the local
system needed to borrow 14 low floor cars!

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
[mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim Holland
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:19 PM
To: PRCo -- WP -- JTC -- The Big *3* --
Subject: Butler


Greetings!

	My PRCo roster shows that the following cars were shipped to Butler in
July, August and October of 1925 (cars are listed in order of shipment:)

	4372
	4382
	4355
	4357
	4375
	4376
	4371
	4354
	4350
	4385
	4383
	4384
	4352
	4351

	Does anyone know when these cars returned to PRCo?  Many of these cars
ended up serving *time* in Little Washington and / or on the Donora
local in their final years.

James B. Holland
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        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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